richadjective
uk/rɪtʃ/us/rɪtʃ/rich adjective (MONEY)
A2 having a lot of money or valuable possessions:
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- She came out of the divorce settlement a rich woman.
- The divergence between the incomes of the rich and the poor countries seems to be increasing.
- Even when she became rich and famous, she never forgot her humble background.
- A lack of formal education is no bar to becoming rich.
- She grew up in the days when a woman's main aim was to snare a rich husband.
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Rich and wealthy
- bazillionaire
- be rolling in it idiom
- born
- clover
- comfort
- deep
- deep pockets idiom
- easy
- feather
- flush
- landowner
- live high on/off the hog idiom
- live off the fat of the land idiom
- nouveau riche
- on easy street idiom
- privilege
- rags-to-riches
- roll
- stinking
- strike
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rich adjective (HAVING A LOT OF STH)
B2 containing a large amount of a valuable natural substance such as coal, oil, or wood:
B2 containing a lot of something good or useful:
Rich land or soil contains a large amount of substances that help plants to grow:
used in compounds to say that someone has a lot of a particular thing, or that something contains a lot of a particular substance :
containing a lot of exciting events or experiences and therefore very interesting:
If the style of something such as a piece of furniture or a building is rich, it contains a lot of decoration:
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Plenty and abundant
- abound
- abound in/with sth
- abundance
- abundant
- ample
- aplenty
- bounty
- fruitfulness
- galore
- generosity
- generous
- handsome
- liberal
- manifold
- profuse
- prolific
- richness
- superabundant
- teeming
- wealth
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rich adjective (ATTRACTIVE)
A rich colour, sound, smell, or taste is strong in a pleasing or attractive way:
A rich material is very beautiful and valuable:
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- This is a wonderful wine - honeyed and rich without being remotely cloying.
- I like rich jewel colours, such as purple, blue and green.
- The leaves on the trees have started to turn a rich coppery colour.
- She loved the beauty and fruitfulness of the autumn, when the whole countryside was ablaze with rich golden colours.
- His health suffered from over-indulgence in rich food and drink.
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Physically strong and powerful
- (as) tough as old boots idiom
- almighty
- billy-o
- brute
- burly
- elemental
- high-octane
- industrial-strength
- invincible
- invulnerable
- muscle-flexing
- omnipotent
- reckon
- stout
- sturdy
- superhuman
- to be reckoned with idiom
- tough
- toughie
- unabated
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rich adjective (FOOD)
B2 If food is rich, it contains a large amount of oil, butter, eggs, or cream:
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Various qualities of food
- citrus
- cordon bleu
- creamy
- crisp
- crispy
- crunchy
- fatty
- hoppy
- instant
- isotonic
- kosher
- lean
- mild
- salt
- sugar-coated
- sugar-free
- unbleached
- undercook
- unsliced
- untouched
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rich adjective (UNFAIR)
[ after verb ] used to describe someone's opinions when that person has the same bad qualities as the person they are criticizing:
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Dishonest
- bad faith
- be rotten to the core idiom
- be up to no good idiom
- bent
- cowboy
- down-and-dirty
- dubious
- false
- finagle
- fishy
- low-down
- malfeasance
- mendacious
- misleading
- perjure
- underhand
- unreliable
- unscrupulous
- unsporting
- weasel
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richnoun [ plural ]
uk/rɪtʃ/us/rɪtʃ/C1 rich people considered together as a group:
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Rich people
- beautiful
- capitalist
- county
- designer socialist
- elite
- glitterati
- haves
- jet-setter
- laird
- means
- nob
- plutocracy
- rentier
- tax exile
- the beautiful people idiom
- the jet set
- toff
- well heeled
- well off
- yuppie
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